Grażyna Staniszewska

In 1930s, a doctor has an affair with the wife of a wealthy industrialist in Poland.

A tale of a young impoverished nobleman, who with his uncle returns from a war against the order of the Teutonic Knights in Lithuania. He falls in love with a beautiful woman and pledges an oath to bring her "three trophies" from the Teutonic Knights.

Three episodes showing the repercussions of war. A soldier is awarded with the Cross of Valor and vacation to home. But instead of his village, he finds only the charred ruins. A stray dog turns out to be the former guard at Auschwitz. A young widow is hailed as the wife of the hero but dreams of something else.

Set in the occupied Warsaw, the film tells the story of the mission carried out by the student uderground resistance group to execute the hated SS General Franz Kutchera.

第二次世界大戦末期、ポーランド。反ソ派テロリストのマチェック（チブルスキー）は、ソ連から来た共産地区委員長暗殺の指令を受ける。しかし、誤って別の男二人を殺してしまう。「世代」「地下水道」に続くワイダの戦争三部作。モノクロの画面の中、虫けらのように儚く消えてゆく青年の命。その空しい死に様は、観る者を絶句させずにはおかない。